Unity - From Novel Game Dev Tool to an Essential?

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There has been a tremendous rise in the mobile app market. What started from developing games and small widgets for the rising smart phone market a few years ago has developed into an industry standard. Large corporations such as Deloitte and AT&T are literally employing new hires with a specialty in app creating software such as Unity. Even more niche industries such as The Weather Company have a department centralized in app creation.

For those uninformed, Unity is an app that was created first in 2005. It is a game development studio that was originally created for Mac OS X but eventually opened ports for Android and virtual reality capabilities. Unity recently released their stable release on March 31, 2017. Unity has a large amount of platforms that it is able to support but is primary used to develop apps on mobile platforms. Unity is now slowly becoming an industry standard for app development and is already the standard for mobile games.

Unity's burst of popularity can really be credited to the tool being free to download. Apps don't take a coding genius to be successful but rather hinges on a new unique idea. There is a trend of small start ups having really successful app ideas that end up as a new company. One can view Snapchat and Uber and some examples of a mobile success through innovation. With Unity's accessibility, and the fact that it is written in a familiar language C, makes for the tool to have potential to become the next Excel. It is unsure if the explosive popularity will remain stable but as long as mobile deveice trends are continuously on the rise, we can be safe to see more alike the tool.